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NLD chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi meets newly elected NLD MPs in Pyinmana on 5 December, 2015. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
NLD instructs candidates to refer to themselves as elected candidates
The National League for Democracy’s (NLD) chairperson Aung San Suu Kyi has instructed newly elected members of Parliament to use ...
Photo: KIC
Land right activists jailed under illegal organization act
Two Hpa-an based land right activists have been jailed for two years, under Article 17/1 for association with an illegal organization.
Nan Khin Htwe Myint, a National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate
Interview with winning Karen NLD candidate
BNI Election News room interviewed Nan Khin Htwe Myint, a National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate that won a seat in ...
Polling complaint sent to Arakan State Election Commission
During the national election only one complaint has been officially lodged from recent polling in Arakan State, according to ...
A man casts his vote at a polling station on 8 November, 2015. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
Eastern Shan State election collapse for Shan parties
According to preliminary election commission reports, of the nine townships in eastern Shan State, the USDP won all the seats in ...
UNA leaders and members pose during the United Nationalities Alliance conference in December, 2014. Photo: Mizzima
NLD and UNA members to hold talks
The National League for Democracy (NLD), undisputed winners of the 2015 elections and currently transitioning into power, will meet with members of...
A man drives a trishaw at the strand road of Mawlamyine, Mon State, Myanmar. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Dr. Aung Naing Oo will work to unify Mon political parties
Dr. Aung Naing Oo, the only successful All Mon Regions Democracy Party (AMDP) candidate, was re-elected to the State Hluttaw ...
PaO National Organization party campaigning in Pinlong Township, Shan State in October, 2015. Photo: Khun Sun Oo
PaO candidates say they are victims of deliberate head-on collision
A driver in Shan State attempted to deliberately crash his car head-on into a vehicle carrying Union PaO National Organization ...
Cholera outbreak in villages in Kayin State has both Myanmar and Thai authorities taking steps to rein it in. Photo: KIC
Cholera outbreak in Kayin State
As of October, twelve villagers had died and 61 villages suffered from a cholera outbreak in Kawkareik and Kyain Seikgyi Townships ...
Four victims injured in a bomb explosion in Mong Hsu. Photos: Citizen journalist (S.H.A.N)
Deadly bomb attack in Shan village
An unexplained bomb blast on October 21 injured three children and killed one elderly woman in the central Shan State township of Mong Hsu, an area...

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